Franson Manjali

Labyrinths of Language

Philosophical and Cultural Investigations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues. The book critically presents the views of a wide range of philosophically and analytically oriented authors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781032364988
• ISBN-10: 103236498X
• Artikelnr.: 71237406

Autorenporträt

Franson Manjali serves as Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics at Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His previous publications include: Nuclear Semantics: Towards a Theory of Relational Meaning; Meaning, Culture and Cognition; Literature and Infinity; Language, Discource and Culture; Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The 'Social' and the 'Cognitive' in Language: A Reading of
Saussure and Beyond 2. Between the Self and the Other: Language after
Levinas 3. On Language and the Assumed Unity of the Human Sciences 4.
Between Pragmatics and Deconstruction: Wittgenstein, Bakhtin and Derrida 5.
Time, Language and the Destruction of Power 6. Kafka: Literature, Law and
Language 7. Blanchot, Writing and the Politico-Religious 8. The Discourse
of Death 9. The Body of Sense, the Sense of Body 10. Towards a Philosophy
of Image 11. Culture and Politics in the Novel: On the Banks of the River
Mahe 12. Globalization of English and the Indian Linguistic Context 13.
Beginnings of Modern Linguistics and the Colonial Context: Perspectives
from History, Culture and Religion